History Film / MaximumOverdrive

The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other machines which have become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever animate and dangerousl]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

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The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other machines which have become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever animate and dangerousl]] dangerous]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other vehicles who have [[SentientVehicle gained sentience]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

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The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other vehicles who machines which have [[SentientVehicle gained sentience]] become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever animate and dangerousl]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The attempt at DoingInTheWizard by having aliens being behind everything ends up [[VoodooShark raising more questions then it answers]]:** How do they control the parts that aren't electronic?** Why does their "Alien Ray" affect trucks, but not cars?** Why would they care if the machines get gas? They could have easily just jumped to another vehicle or some machine that didn't require it.** How do the aliens [[AliensSpeakingEnglish know Morse Code and what an "asshole" is]]?

* PlugNPlayTechnology: Kind of a weird partial example. There's no actual interfacing of differing technologies per se, but the weird alien radiation which animates the Earth's gadgets does endow those gadgets with some unexpected abilities -- such as the ability to see/sense humans, or to move independently even with no built-in means of locomotion. In the short story, at least, the "alien ray" was supernatural.

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* PlugNPlayTechnology: Kind of a weird partial example. There's no actual interfacing of differing technologies per se, but the weird alien radiation which animates the Earth's gadgets does endow those gadgets with some unexpected abilities -- such as the ability to see/sense humans, or to move independently even with no built-in means of locomotion. In the short story, at least, the "alien ray" was animate trucks were entirely supernatural.

Reason: Plot holes are one of my biggest pet peeves, which is why I have the unpopular opinion of preferring the 1997 movie.

''Maximum Overdrive'' is a 1986 horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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''Maximum Overdrive'' is a 1986 horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing Creator/StephenKing, based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' ''Maximum Overdrive'' is a 1986 horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

''Maximum Overdrive'' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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''Maximum Overdrive'' '''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

%%* AdaptationExpansion* AdaptationExpansion: The original story only focused on the rest stop and the people within as the vehicles all of a sudden attacked and it ended on the scene where the people of the rest stop are forced to load gasoline onto the vehicles (and the narrator hits the DespairEventHorizon [[DownerEnding because he believes that now the machines will enslave humanity and force it to keep them running until it dies off]]). In contrast, the movie shows more places being attacked and then has the survivors attempting to escape from the rest stop [[spoiler:and succeed]].

* CorruptHick: Bubba Hendershot runs a truck stop that mostly employs people on parole allowing him to force them to work more hours then he has to pay them for. If they refuse, then he can get his friend who is on the state patrol to arrest them and send them back to jail. Billy theorizes that Bubba also sells guns on the side when his gun cache is found.

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* CorruptHick: Bubba Hendershot runs a truck stop that mostly employs people on parole allowing him to force them to work more hours then than he has to pay them for. If they refuse, then he can get his friend who is on the state patrol to arrest them and send them back to jail. Billy theorizes that Bubba also sells guns on the side when his gun cache is found.

** A man is [[GroinAttack struck twice in the nuts]] and [[TapOnTheHead then on the forehead]] by soda cans that shoot violently out of a vending machine. It's unclear, but likely, that he dies from the second blow.

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** A man is [[GroinAttack struck twice in the nuts]] and [[TapOnTheHead then on the forehead]] by soda cans that shoot violently out of a vending machine. It's unclear, but likely, that he dies from the second blow. Shortly after, various kids are struck by the cans and some of them die (or are knocked unconscious for ''the steamroller'' to finish off).

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* WouldHurtAChild: A scene has various kids killed (by rapidly-thrown soda cans from a VengefulVendingMachine and, most iconically, by ''a steamroller running over one'') while they are playing baseball.

'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection. The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' ''Maximum Overdrive'' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection.collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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